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I came across this Saab-ish story just now on the web - I have nothing to do with the firm (I was looking for another story from a cambridge (UK) website)
Former garage tea boy is promoted to the board
By Stephen Blease
A CAMBRIDGE man has reached the top of the firm where he first started working as a tea and errand boy at the age of 14.
Andrew Ballard, now 37, has become a company director at car dealers Buckingham and Stanley Saab - 23 years after he first started work there as a schoolboy.
(ed: http://www.cambridgesaab.co.uk/)
His directorship fulfils a lifelong ambition he has had, since developing a boyhood interest in cars, to pursue a career at the top of the automotive industry.
Mr Ballard began working at the firm in the evenings and at weekends in 1980, making the tea and running general errands for the workshop technicians.
Two years later he left school to train as a mechanic, but as the firm had no mechanics' vacancies at that time he moved elsewhere.
Within 10 years, however, he returned to Buckingham and Stanley as a qualified mechanic to become a workshop technician and only four months later he was promoted to workshop foreman.
In 1995 he was appointed technical services manager, and two years later he took on the more customer-oriented job of after-sales manager.
Then this year he became after-sales director and a shareholder in the firm.
He said: "I'm absolutely thrilled to have been promoted to a director of the company.
"I have always felt a great loyalty to Buckingham and Stanley Saab, having cut my teeth here over 20 years ago as a young schoolboy. So to get to the top of my career here is just great." The firm was set up in 1968 by Malcolm Buckingham and Michael Stanley. It now has a new and used car showroom in Harston, a car service centre in Trumpington and a specialist older models centre in Histon.
In 1978 Mr Buckingham sold his share of the business to James Howarth, the present managing director. Mr Ballard sits on the board alongside Mr Howarth and Michael Stanley's son John.
Published on 23 July 2003
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